David R. Brower

Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time. ”

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad. ”

Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field. ”

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place! ”

We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart. ”

What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.' ”

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system. ”

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present. ”

We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost. ”

When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle. ”